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Monday, February 27, 2017

After many months of anticipation sugaring time has arrived and for the past three days we have been collecting Maple sap and boiling it down to make Maple syrup. It is a very hard and time consuming effort as the sap to syrup ration is roughly 40-1, meaning that it takes 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup. Yes folks, a lot of sap.
Once we have made enough syrup to last a year and made some Maple sap wine we will turn our attention to the Birch tree's.
All go guys in a very tasty way.

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Our family follows a self reliant and environmentally conscious lifestyle in Nova Scotia. In June 2016 we moved from our 14 acre homestead in Manitoba to the 70 acre homestead we now call home in rural Nova Scotia. The undeveloped hay fields needed much work but since our move we have developed the land to be able to move further along the road towards greater self-sufficiency here as we did in Manitoba. It is a continuous process. We take pride in what we do, we believe that everyone who wants to can make small steps to gain a better quality of life for themselves, the people around them and the flora and fauna that we share our home with. Raising animals for food, growing what we eat and good old home cooking is a not a small job but we love it.